Hey,

When I login to my laptop, there's a dialog that asks me for a password. When I fill that in, it allows the network manager to access my wifi password and connect to the wifi. How can I change the password that network manager is asking for?

It's kinda awkward to ask this question - I am not asking how to change my wifi password, but the password that comes up - Seahorse? I'm not sure what's used on Lubuntu.

DId you just recently install Lubuntu?

Isn't this the same password that you used to setup your user account in Lubuntu? There should be an option under: system > users and groups, to change your password.
Or from the terminal: Just replace user_name in that command with your user name.

I changed the user password for the computer, but that password didn't change to be the same

So the password for network manager is somehow different from your user password?
If so, then where did this password come from? It must have been set by you somehow.

Let me start again. When you install any of the 'buntus, the password is set to match your login password. When you change your login password, that one that NM uses does not change to match it. How do I change it to match?

Thanks,

Hmmm, I just booted my Lubuntu 10.10 install on my desktop. I am unable to even find network-manager in the Lubuntu menu. The only way I can load up network-manager is to right-click on the 2 up and down arrows on the right side of the bottom panel and choose "edit connections".
Anyway, network-manager does not even ask me for a password! I can edit, add, or delete anything I want without being asked for a password.
I had changed my password on Lubuntu a while back, so I wanted to check this out to see if what you said applies to me also. Apparently, it does not. Why? I do not know.
I connect to the internet via a wired cable DHCP connection. Therefore, I have never needed to mess with network-manager before, since my internet connection is enabled automatically when I boot the computer.
Sorry, but I don't have an answer for this.

EDIT: One possible (less than ideal) solution:
You could just remove network-manager and network-manager-gnome. Then install wicd. I prefer using wicd to network-manager for managing wireless connections anyway. For wired connections I just stick with *buntu's network-manager, since there is no practical advantage to using wicd for wired connections from my experience.
Wicd should honor your user password. Wicd and network-manager conflict with each other. So you need to use one or the other.
If you ever want to go back to network-manager, then just remove wicd and reinstall network-manager and network-manager-gnome and you will be right back where you started.

I'll have to take a screenshot and post it. I'm not 100% sure we're talking about the same thing

Network Manager is the two up and down arrows on the right side of the bottom panel. If you right-click on those arrows and choose "edit connections" Network Manager loads.
Regarding passwords and Network Manager, I just remembered that one or two versions back, K/X/L/Ubuntu made Network Manager available to the user without a password.

Attached is the dialog box that I'm talking about. The system wouldn't let me do a screenshot or pretty much anything that wasn't typing into the password dialog, so I had to take a photo.

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OK. I googled the error in that dialog box that you posted in your photo. That error seems to be related to the Gnome keyring.
Have you configured Lubuntu for automatic login???
It seems that this may be an issue between the Gnome keyring and automatic login.
See these links:
http://maketecheasier.com/auto-unloc...pid/2009/03/14
http://www.greenhughes.com/content/h...book-remix-904
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=961699
http://superuser.com/questions/43132...ring-to-unlock
Please write back and tell us:
1. Have you enabled automatic login (i.e., logging in automatically without a password)?
2. If you have enabled automatic login, do the links I gave here help at all??
3. If those links are of no help, can you try disabling automatic login. Then reboot and login with your password. Then see if this problem goes away.
4. If you have not enabled automatic login, then we are back to square one, since I am pretty much out of new ideas here.

I am hoping to figure this out. I think this may be the key (pun intended!!) to solving this.
Please write back with your results.

I had similar problem - the wifi password is stored in gnome keyring. To avoid keyring poping up every boot make sure in network manager, wireless tab, the box "available for all users" is ticked. It should stop gnome keyring bothering you.